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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2012 19:05:13 -0600
From:	Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.luna@...aro.org>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@....icnet.pl>,
	Loic PALLARDY <loic.pallardy@...com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Dom Cobley <popcornmix@...il.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>, Juan Gutierrez <jgutierrez@...com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...ia.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mailbox: OMAP: introduce mailbox framework

Hi Stephen,

On 5 November 2012 21:40, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
> On 11/05/2012 07:55 PM, Omar Ramirez Luna wrote:
>> Actually moving it from plat-omap, as this framework/driver code is
>> supposed to be under drivers/ folder. The framework should work with
>> the current supported OMAP processors (OMAP1+) that have mailbox and
>> can be used as a method of interprocessor communication.
>>
>> The mailbox hardware (in OMAP) uses a queued mailbox-interrupt mechanism
>> that provides a communication channel between processors through a set of
>> registers and their associated interrupt signals by sending and receiving
>> messages.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.h b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.h
>
> Is this a public interface to the driver? If so, shouldn't the header be
> in include/linux somewhere?
>
> Is this a generic interface to any mailbox driver? If so, then I don't
> think having "omap" in the symbol names is appropriate. If the header is
> specific to the OMAP driver, I don't think using the very generic
> filename "mailbox.h" is appropriate; use omap_mailbox.h instead?

It was a mixture between the two, the next patch splits the API from
the mailbox driver interfaces.

I kept the files named as plain mailbox.[ch], in hopes that we could
progress with the cleanup after moving the files from plat-omap, as it
seems they interfere with the current single Image effort, but if it
is preferred (as it seems to be) I can resend again after removing the
omap_ prefixes from the intended-to-be generic code.

Thanks,

Omar
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